Improvement in drain-tile-laying apparatus



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Tile Laying Ap pa ratus.

PatentedV March 11, 1873.

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GEORGE w. NEVILL, OE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRAIN-TILE-LAYING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,751, dated March 11, 1873.

`To all whom it may concern:

of Richmond, in the county of Henrico andV State of Virginia, have invented a Tool for Placing Tile in Ditches, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists in a tool consisting of two tubes adjustably connected together, on which the tiles are held rmly while being carried into the ditch, and from which they may be thenreadily detached, all as hereinafter fully described.

The advantages of this tool are that the tiles, being laid in sections of several, accord ing to the length of the tool, the operator is enabled to lay them by means of a level, or otherwise, at a regular and more uniform pitch; to lay a line of tiles with much greater accuracy, with far greater rapidity, and with an economy of at least fifty per cent. in the cost.

In the drawing, Figure l is a side elevation with parts broken outl Fig. 2 shows the w ay of using the tool. A B represent two tubes, connected together by one or more pairs ot' straps, C C, which are pivoted to each. D is` a flattened rod, having the two bent ends d d. The end d is longer than d1, and is fastened within the tube A. In both is screwed along swiveled screw, E, which passes through a nut, F, of the rod G that is attached within the tube B.

The operation of thetool is as follows: The ditch having been opened to the desired width and depth, and the tiles having been strewn alongside the ditch upon planks or otherwise, theytwo tubes are placed within one or a series of tiles previously laid in position to receive the tool. I use tubes instead of solid cylin ders, simply because of the strength com bined with lightness. The screw E is then worked in the nut F until the two tubes bear firmly upon opposite sides of the tiles, and are made fast to them. One man then holds one end, while a second holds the other, and the free ends of the tubes are placed against the tile already laid, the tool end with the screw projecting beyond the new line of tiles. The row of tiles having been adjusted, covered, and packed with dirt, the tube B is lowered bythe screw in the direction of tube A, until they are loosened from the tiles, when they are4 withdrawn.l

It will be perceived that, unlike the old system' of laying tiles, where two workmen were compelled to get into the ditch, and also to adjust eachrindividual tile, with my tool there is 11o necessity of entering the ditch. It also becomes unnecessary to eXcaf vate so wide a ditch preparatory to the laying of the tiles, while, by the number simultaneously placed, a great economy of labor and expense is obtained. A rope or metallic loop may be used at one end in lowering the tubes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is' Y A tool for placing tiles in a prepared ditch or excavation, consisting of tubes A B, connected by screw and pivoted straps as described.

G. W. NEVILL.

Witnesses:

SOLON C. KEMON, GHAs. A. PETTIT. 

